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If I pay the cellphone bills of my children or even my grandchildren (family plan), then yes, until you are 18, I will use the GPS in your phone to monitor where you go and when you go there. I do not see where this is even in argument but in my family it has been. I feel that it is the right of a parent to monitor a kid's cellphone GPS and even his or her driving if it is your car or you paid for them a car. If mine are out after hours, I want to know why, where and what they are doing. If they tell me they are going somewhere, I want the ability to verify that is where indeed they are going. And BTW, if it makes them feel any better, they can monitor my phone GPS as well.
It's ok if you want/need to monitor them. I have the features with our plan and the kids know it. I'm lucky I guess that I drop them off and pick them up. If they change plans, they call me. I've yet to feel the need to use those features.
I do monitor usage and what they're doing with the devices rather than their whereabouts. They know that I will ask for their phones/tablets any time and check them.
I won't judge another parent for wanting to keep tabs on their child. After all, when something happens others want to know why the parents weren't aware.
I find the monitoring a bit creepy really but meh, if it works for your family then fine. If they don't like it they can always pay for their own phones and cars.
If I pay the cellphone bills of my children or even my grandchildren (family plan), then yes, until you are 18, I will use the GPS in your phone to monitor where you go and when you go there. I do not see where this is even in argument but in my family it has been. I feel that it is the right of a parent to monitor a kid's cellphone GPS and even his or her driving if it is your car or you paid for them a car. If mine are out after hours, I want to know why, where and what they are doing. If they tell me they are going somewhere, I want the ability to verify that is where indeed they are going. And BTW, if it makes them feel any better, they can monitor my phone GPS as well.
Sounds like you can't trust your children to tell you the truth about where they are and where they are going.
sounds right to me. soon kids will learn that autonomy only comes with financial responsibility. And if that spurs them to being independent that that can't be a bad thing.
Sounds like you can't trust your children to tell you the truth about where they are and where they are going.
To be fair dew- do you think kids always tell the truth? I certainly didn't when I was a teen and I know my grown kids didn't when they were teens. No cell phone or GPS or personal computers then but if there had been we would have been all about monitoring. When our "little girls" get phones we will probably use those features. I think it is good to let your kids know they have someone to answer to.
If I pay the cellphone bills of my children or even my grandchildren (family plan), then yes, until you are 18, I will use the GPS in your phone to monitor where you go and when you go there. I do not see where this is even in argument but in my family it has been. I feel that it is the right of a parent to monitor a kid's cellphone GPS and even his or her driving if it is your car or you paid for them a car. If mine are out after hours, I want to know why, where and what they are doing. If they tell me they are going somewhere, I want the ability to verify that is where indeed they are going. And BTW, if it makes them feel any better, they can monitor my phone GPS as well.
OK....
As for my family...my kids are grown so when they had cell phones as teens this really wasn't an issue because they didn't have smartphones...I'd guess though, that I'd treat them like we did other privileges. We trust you until you give us reason not to. Once you cross that line, you put us in the postition of needing to check/verify. So think about that...Kind of how we felt about snooping in their rooms or other things. That seemed to work for us.
To be fair dew- do you think kids always tell the truth? I certainly didn't when I was a teen and I know my grown kids didn't when they were teens. No cell phone or GPS or personal computers then but if there had been we would have been all about monitoring. When our "little girls" get phones we will probably use those features. I think it is good to let your kids know they have someone to answer to.
Do you think GPS is going to stop kids from lying? With or without GPS and other tracking devices did you and your older kids manage to grow up and become functioning adults and responsible citizens?
Sounds like you can't trust your children to tell you the truth about where they are and where they are going.
I trust them all but the oldest boy. Done caught him in too many lies and he has been in too much trouble. The other 2 I never even looked at.
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